Hi. Following bug exists in the ipw2100 driver/firmware for years and Intel folks never responded to zillions bugzilla entries and forum notices in the internet with some patch or firmware update (although did request dmesg and debug info, and received them). ipw2100: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart. I believe it is a firmware bug because after driver is unloaded and loaded back again wireless adapter usually starts working (for small amount of time though). My conspiracy feeling can suggest, that it may be kind of a force to buy a new one, or trivial error in the firmware, when it writes to the same place in the flash and essentially given cell became dead or whatever else. Intel folks, please fix this problem, I see no other way to force you to do this than to mark ipw2100 driver as broken, since that is what it is. Bug exists at least in .15 upto .24 kernels, just search above dmesg line. I cought it with 2.6.24-19-386 ubuntu kernel, 1.3 firmware version. lspci: 02:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Samsung X10/P30 integrated WLAN Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 64 (500ns min, 8500ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at 90080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME- dmesg is pretty usual. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig index 9931b5a..c24fc6a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ config PCMCIA_RAYCS config IPW2100 tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection" - depends on PCI && WLAN_80211 + depends on PCI && WLAN_80211 && BROKEN select WIRELESS_EXT select FW_LOADER select IEEE80211 -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
